Improvement in vehicle-wheels



E. BA'LL.

Vehicle-Wheel.

WITNESSES INVENTOR @MQM W MW ATTORNEYS N. PET-R5, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER,WASHINGTON, D C.

\ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EPHEAIM BALL, OF ULARKSYILLE, TENNESSEE, AS SIGNOR TOv THE GLARKS- VILLEIRON WAGON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHICLE-WHEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,209. datedSeptember 28, 1875; application filed March 6, 1875. i

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To all whomtt may concern:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM BALL, of

Olarksville, in the county of Montgomery and in the State of Tennessee,-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wheels forVehicles; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyin gdrawings and t0 the letters of reference marked thereon, making a partof this specification.

The nature of my invention relates to an improvement upon Letters PatentN 0. 119,811, granted to me October 10,1871; and it consists in theconstruction and mode of uniting an iron spoke to an iron felly, as willbe hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which myinvention-appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, referring to the annexeddrawing, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention, andFig. 2 is a section of the same.

A represents an iron spoke, and B an iron felly, to which the spokes areto be attached.

0b of the felly. The prongs of the spoke are then riveted, to the fellyby rivets d d.

Having thus fully described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is- I The combination of the I-shapedmetallic spoke A, with forked end and square part b,

and the metallic felly B, having notches a,-

the parts being united by the rivets d, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this30th day of January, 1875.

EPHRAIM BALL.

Witnesses:

A. HOWELL, G. L. ALLEY.

